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Vintage VHF wireless...


curleysound

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I love to tinker, and recently bought 3 Audio Ltd. VHF units from Ebay. It was totally on spec, and I realize that at around 28 years old, they might not be worth the powder to blow them to Hell, but I'm willing to see what I can make of them. If anyone here had Audio Ltd VHF wireless from around 30 years ago, I'd love to hear from you re: the ins and out of them, as there were no manuals or any documentation with them. They came with 3 xmtrs,  and 2 receivers, one of which was a dual channel receiver, which I never knew existed before Zaxcom! :)

I'll provide pics when I can.

Thanks,

Tom

www.curleysound.com

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They were ok, back in the day (those clear sky RF days!).  The dual channel RX was popular w/ doco guys since it was a lot smaller than two Vega or HME RX of that time.  I worked for a mixer who had some, and they worked fine.  I ended up going with American made wireless when I bought my first because they seemed to work just as well and were cheaper than the Audios.  Those old VHF pre-Lectro untis needed frequent servicing--I recall taking my Swinteks down to the factory several times a year and having a local tech touch up my Vegas often after.  That was the big change w/ Lectro--stability.  Anyhow, you might ask about the Audio manuals etc over on the AMPS forum--lots of British mixers there who probably had Audios like that back then.

Philip Perkins

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One of the dual Audios was my first wireless.  It had the amazing habit of working fine until the camera rolled and then taking a big dump.  I really don't think it ever had anything to do with the camera; no RF video transmitters to f**k things up in those days!  Just perverse.

One day, on a critical scene, it took it's dump for the last time.  I walked over to the set-edge apple box that it was sitting on, calmly unplugged it and then threw it into a brick wall with all my might.  No more problems with the Audio Ltd after that.

Off-topic, anyone in New Mexico know about the mysterious Blk. 21-22 interference blanket that shows up and then magically disappears?  A big black horizon on my Lecnet scans, cuts my range to nothing across both blocks and the goes away for days on end?  The techs in Rio Rancho don't have a clue either.  Too large for a DTV signal, two whole blocks (and beyond?).  Maybe gov't or military, but it made me pull out all my tricks last week and become a little more visable to the production than I like to be the other day.  Screwy!

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